Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meat. In Lewiston, Idaho, Cowboy Gene Rambo, onetime world champion broncobuster and bulldogger, suffered his first injury of the season: a wrenched knee while playing golf...
...takes almost no stride at all as he meets the ball. The usual forward stride, he thinks, is a waste motion and throws a power hitter off balance. To get maximum power into his own swats, Leftfielder Kiner uses the same delicate combination that is found in a perfect golf swing-pivot, wrist-snap and timing...
...London paper they read about their well-stocked larder. Cracked Hogan, coldly: "Next time I guess we'll have to leave our clubs at home and just have a meat show." The little Texan, not recovered from his near-fatal auto accident, was playing no tournament golf, but he was still a bad man to cross. Good-neighborliness dwindled to zero last week when Hogan demanded a look at the British team's irons before the matches-and pointed out that some of them were illegally grooved. An all-night argument over one set of British clubs...
...Ardmore, Pa., for the first time in the history of the national women's amateur golf championship, a 15-year-old girl stroked her way into the semifinals. Comely Marlene Bauer of Los Angeles, winner of the National Girl's Championship last month (TIME, Aug. 29), had oldtimers recalling the cool poise of the youthful Bobby Jones (who played in his first Nationals at 14). But after getting to the semifinal round, Marlene's firm grip slipped; on the second hole, she took seven strokes in her match with Dorothy Kielty, a fellow Californian from Long Beach...
...concentration on the trial all week-like walking a tightrope-the mere sustained effort of conversation fatigues Harold. He simply cannot spare his energy talking to people." For relaxation on weekends in Westhampton, N.Y., the judge has been rereading all of Dickens ("So far removed from the trial"), playing golf, billiards, and going out in his boat to watch the sailboat races...